History Dispatches
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Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
Oct 23, 202615 min
Google Maps War
Oct 21, 202616 min
Dummy Hoy - Baseball's deaf star
Oct 19, 202619 min
Aral Sea Disaster
Oct 16, 202622 min
Ötzi the Iceman
Oct 14, 202617 min
Dorothy Molter - The Root Beer Lady
Oct 12, 202621 min
Margery Booth - Opera Singer and Spy
Oct 9, 202621 min
The Brazen Bull - One of the cruelest torture devices in history
Oct 7, 202617 min
Rikers Island Salvador Dali Art Heist
Oct 5, 202622 min
The SS Eastland Disaster: The worst disaster in Great Lakes history
Oct 2, 202618 min
Loving Day - The story of Richard and Mildred Loving
Sep 30, 202614 min
Hannibal's most daring achievement: Crossing the Alps
Sep 28, 202624 min
Operation Rubicon - one of the most successful intelligence operations of the Cold War
Sep 25, 202622 min
The Smoot: History's oddest measuring stick
Sep 23, 202616 min
10 Tragic Days: The coup that rocked Mexico
Sep 21, 202624 min
The Republic of Fredonia
Sep 18, 202621 min
Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion
Sep 16, 202621 min
The Turkish Bombard
Sep 14, 202622 min
The Glorious Defeat of the Revenge - The 1591 Battle of Flores
Sep 11, 202620 min
The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery
Sep 9, 202621 min
Flathead Lake Monster
Sep 7, 202615 min
Boxers, Briefs, Corsets and Codpieces – introducing You’re Dead To Me
Sep 5, 20263 min
Rocket Mail: when the Postal Service attempted to deliver mail via cruise missile
Sep 4, 202621 min
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Sep 2, 202623 min
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus: One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Aug 31, 202622 min
Blucifer - The Demon Horse of Denver International Airport
Aug 28, 202619 min
How Star Wars almost never happened - Part 2
Aug 26, 202623 min
How Star Wars almost never happened - Part 1
Aug 24, 202616 min
Story of the Polygraph
Aug 21, 202621 min
Roger Bannister and the 4-minute mile
Aug 19, 202620 min
Sliced Bread and the time it was banned
Aug 17, 202619 min
WebcamGate - The High School Spying Scandal
Aug 14, 202632 min
The Defenestrations of Prague - How throwing someone out a window sparked a religious war
Aug 12, 202618 min
ParaBeavers - Idaho’s Parachuting Beavers
Aug 10, 202614 min
1975 LaGuardia Airport Bombing
Aug 7, 202620 min
The History of Calvin and Hobbes
Aug 5, 20261h 0m
The life - and afterlife - of Henrietta Lacks
Aug 3, 202620 min
Madoc and Welsh Indians
Jul 31, 202624 min
Hay Meadow Massacre
Jul 29, 202620 min
Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Jul 27, 202623 min
Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in history
Jul 24, 202617 min
History of the QWERTY Keyboard
Jul 22, 202621 min
The Colossus of Rhode: The greatest statue of the ancient world
Jul 20, 202622 min
Flint Water Crisis
Jul 17, 202624 min
The Truth Behind Troy
Jul 15, 202621 min
Battle of Tsushima: the birth of modern naval warfare
Jul 13, 202624 min
The Land Lobster: The world's rarest insect
Jul 10, 202619 min
Navajo Code Talkers
Jul 8, 202617 min
The Paraguayan War: South America's Deadliest War
Jul 6, 202620 min
Jonathan the Tortoise: The world's oldest living land animal
Jul 3, 202616 min